 Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested — that is, some books are...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 85by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | WILLIAM SMYTH - 1841 - 480 pages
...parts, that they are therefore read superficially. Some books (says my Lord Bacon), are to be tasted, some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some...to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. The same may be pretty generally said of the different... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 532 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - 472 pages
...Simpkin, fyc. 1843. " Some books," says Lord Bacon, " are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." The present volume is one which may justly be said... | |
 | 1842 - 570 pages
...read with equal care. Lord Bacon says, 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are...to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.' No rule is deeper laid in common sense than this. Whoever... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...conversation'; but to weigh and consider'. Some books arc to be tasted'; others', to be swallowed" ; and some few', to be chewed and digested'; that is', some books are to be only glanced at'; others' . . are to be read', but not critically'; and somey°etc' . . are to be read... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Head — not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...to be read, but not curiously; and some few, to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...they teach not their own use : but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiousry ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books, also, may... | |
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